Showing posts with label BIOS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label BIOS. Show all posts

Friday, October 11, 2024

How to check Lenovo Laptop "Type"

When you select the BIOS update, you will see there is a "Type" under the laptop model:

To check your laptop "Type", go to the system information and check the "system Model" and "BaseBoard Product":


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Saturday, August 10, 2024

Lenovo T14s Gen 4 upgrade BIOS to 1.20 (R2EUJ39W)

Lenovo T14s Gen 4 upgrade BIOS to 1.20 (R2EUJ39W)


which is fixed the charging issue.

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Monday, July 1, 2019

X220 bios setup for upgrade bios using bootable CD

Since X220 BIOS upgrade cannot running on Windows 10, we need to use bootable CD to run the upgrade.

Beside, if you using UEFI boot for the Windows 10, you need to change the boot mode to both or legacy to run the CD to upgrade BIOS. After the upgrade complete, back to UEFI boot.

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Friday, January 12, 2018

Spectre and Meltdown CPU vulnerabilities - Lenovo Security Advisory: LEN-18282 - BIOS release schedule for different model

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https://support.lenovo.com/hk/en/solutions/len-18282


Reference:

https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Security-Malware/Microsoft-issues-emergency-Windows-update-for-processor-security/m-p/3929464


#Spectre #CVE20175715   #CVE20175753
#Meltdown #CVE20175754
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Saturday, August 19, 2017

Lenovo X270 HDMI connect to Projector hang up issue

A Lenovo X270 laptop running on Windows 10 (1607) (14393.1358), when it connect the HDMI to projector. The machine will hang up.


Resolution: Upgrade BIOS to 1.18 (6/26/2017) and Display card driver to 21.20.16.4639

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Monday, April 10, 2017

How to upgrade the Chuwi Vi8 Plus BIOS?

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The tablet BIOS is running on P03_C806.108

 

1. Go to download the latest Chuwi Vi8 Plus BIOS:
https://mega.nz/#!ZhZEGbAR!nU3qq ... aZvzuRQ4eXNNTtMoKG8

http://forum.chuwi.com/thread-1175-1-1.html 

 

2. Run the P03_C806.rom.exe

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3. Waiting for the command prompt disappear

 

4. Reboot the machine

 

5. Done

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Friday, December 4, 2015

Windows OS Volume (Legacy BIOS vs UEFI and MBR vs GPT)

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Tuesday, August 20, 2013

How to run 16GB RAM (8GB x 2) on Acer V5-571G?

How to run 16GB RAM (8GB x 2) on Acer V5-571G?

If the laptop is running on 1.x BIOS, please upgrade the BIOS to 1.22

Download Acer BIOS 1.22

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After that you will find your Acer V5-571G support 16GB RAM:

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Monday, April 1, 2013

AMD SB850/SB950 bug - performance issue

If you are using AMD SB850/SB950, and also you find your hard disk running very slow. (A new purchase machine and also clean install Windows) For example, when you click a software to run, the whole windows is freezing (cannot open the other software and even the task manager, the performance and reliability monitor about the harddisk is empty (No information is show up).

It maybe you hit the bug of the SATA IDE combined mode.

Solution:

Go to BIOS and disable the “SATA IDE Combined Mode”

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If you cannot find this option, please make sure all the SATA connection are using RAID/AHCI. (No “IDE” option have been set for SATA device)

 

After you make the above change, you should see the IDE ATA/ATAPI Controller – show “AMD SATA Controller” only, no other IDE device/controller.

AHCI_Win7

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Sunday, August 22, 2010

電腦會自動開啟及要按任意鍵才能繼續開機

電腦會自動開啟及要按任意鍵才能繼續開

http://changyang319.pixnet.net/blog/post/26738646

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Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Dell 960 SFF reset BIOS password

The BIOS password have been removed by remove the “Password Jumper Pins (PSWD) - SMALL FORM FACTOR COMPUTER (SFF)” (http://www.dell.com/downloads/emea/edb/Opti_960_Tech_Guidebook_July_1_2009_Sustaining.pdf - P.9)

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Saturday, June 19, 2010

BIOS Update per bootable USB-Stick

http://www.biosflash.com/e/bios-boot-usb-stick.htm

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